{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-2000/schedule-6/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-2000/schedule-6/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/2",
  "legislation_title": "Representation of the People Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 9 (voting as proxy) is amended as follows.\n(2) In each of subsections (1) and (3), omit “or local government”.\n(3) In subsection (4), omit—\n(a) “, at local government elections or at both”; and\n(b) in paragraph (a), “, or electoral area,”;\nand in paragraph (b) for “the same area” substitute “ the same ward ”.\n(4) Omit subsection (5).\n(5) In subsection (6), omit paragraph (a) (including the final “and”).\n(6) In subsection (7), omit “or, as the case may be, electoral area”.\n(7) In subsection (8), omit “in respect of elections of the kind in question”.\n(8) In subsection (9), omit—\n(a) “or local government”; and\n(b) in paragraph (a), “in respect of elections of the kind in question”.\n(9) In subsection (10)—\n(a) in paragraph (a), omit “, local government electors or both (as the case may be)”; and\n(b) in paragraph (b), for “elections of the kind in question” substitute “ parliamentary elections ”.\n(10) In subsection (11), in paragraph (b), omit “, or electoral area,”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 17 wholly in force at 16.2.2001, see s. 17(3) and S.I. 2001/116, art. 2(1) (subject to art 2(3-5))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/2/schedule/6/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:30.953153+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}